Nick Clegg has admitted he “should have been more careful” when he signed a
pre-election pledge to oppose a rise in tuition fees for university
students.

Nick Clegg has admitted he “should have been more careful” when he signed a pre-election pledge to oppose a rise in tuition fees for university students.

The Deputy Prime Minister and Liberal Democrat leader was singled out for stinging personal criticism for his U-turn during the march by thousands of students through Westminster on Wednesday.

Hundreds of students chanted “Nick Clegg, We know you, You’re a xxxxxxx Tory too” during the demonstration which ended with the lobby of the office block which houses Conservative Central Office being sacked.

Mr Clegg said the violence had “been generated by very small number of people who had behaved utterly unacceptably”.

Asked how he felt to be singled out, he said: "Of course it is difficult when people who are feeliong angry about dfecisions direct those demonstrations in the way that they did."